Judging by how often people borrow art prints* from the library, Arlington has a lot of art lovers. So you’ll be glad to learn that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has just made 20,000 images of its artwork that is in the public domain available in high-resolution format.

*Didn’t know you could borrow art from the library? Come on in and check out our collection on the second floor and in the stairwell. Art prints go out for six weeks at a time.

LACMA’s instructions read, “To find downloadable images, visit our collections database. Search by any criteria. On the search results page, at the top right, you will see an option that says “select only results with unrestricted images.” Check this box to filter for results for which we offer a high quality downloadable image. Navigate to a particular artwork, and you will see a “download” option immediately below the image that will deliver the image to your desktop.”

Do take a minute to read the Terms and Conditions, and be aware that these images are “only for limited non-commercial personal use. Users must cite the author/artist and source of the Protected Content as they would material from any printed or other work, and the citation should include the URL “www.lacma.org” in addition to all copyright and other proprietary notices provided with the Protected Content.”

So, as long as you’re willing to cite your sources, there’s a treasure trove of art waiting to be discovered. You can search for a particular artist, but I had better luck searching by country (e.g. Spain, France, England) and browsing all of the artists. Here are a few that I found: